I have the right to perform a sexual service in exchange for money.

[The Straight Story]

154. No, let me try to explain it simply:

1. Someone is pregnant, does not want the child and the responsibility for it, she has a choice to get an abortion. The pregnancy and the baby after is born is not something she wants to have to deal with. Her body, her choice - forcing someone to be a parent and use their body to support a life and then to raise it is against the idea of choice.

2. Child support requires the use of someone's body (they have to work or go to jail) and they are given no choice but are told simply 'to avoid this problem, keep it in your pants, you are responsible for your actions, and you have to take care of a child, too bad, you made it" - so in cases like that you don't get to have a choice.

It is nice how you try to say I am equating two things exactly while ignoring the core of the argument - personal freedom to make choices.

I could care less about 'child support' it is simply used for an illustrative purpose.

Your railing about child support demonstrates that what angers you is that you don't have a right to control the bodies of others, which is precisely what this issue is about.

I don't want to control the bodies of others - which is why I am against turning people wanting sex into criminals. I don't want to ban abortions either, but it appears some people are, indeed, all about controlling the bodies of others by punishing them via laws/jail/fines/etc.

How is a man's "right" to rape a child comparable to a woman's right to make medical decisions about her own body?

And you tossed that in there why? Is saying that you believe two consenting adults should be allowed by you and others to have sex in the way they want mean that someone is suddenly for rape? Or is that just an emotional plea in the argument to try to derail the core ideals being espoused?

The entire argument is about choice - either you are for women (and men) being allowed to make adult choices - or you think you should step in and punish them for not making the choices with their bodies you personally believe are the right ones.

Which is it?